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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Barley and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 568 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Turkeys

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Lock the turkey up until she lays all her eggs each morning.

  2. Feed the young turkeys often, away from the hen, with curds, green cheese parings, and bread mixed with milk and chopped wormwood.

  3. Provide them with fresh milk and water, ensuring it does not sour.

  4. For the first two weeks, fatten them with sodden oats or barley.

  5. In the last two weeks, feed them rice swelled with warm milk twice a day.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Barley + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together568 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Oats + barleytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together224 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Milk + cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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